Mara Harrell (she/her) is a Teaching Professor of Philosophy & Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of What Is the Argument? (2016; The MIT Press)

Kathryn Petrozzo (she/her), Ph.D. is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Oakland University. In the Fall of 2025, she will be joining the Humanities Department as an Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to her appointment, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her current work is focused on the relationship between mental illness and conceptions of agency, rationality, legal responsibility, and blameworthiness. She explores these issues through the interdisciplinary scholarship on agency, rationality, and neurobiology. It is my hope to assist in reforming these concepts in order to reduce the stigma of individuals with mental illnesses as being less than agential, violent, and unpredictable. More broadly, she is interested in how the institutions of science and law interact, and how these interactions can disproportionately affect marginalized groups. The questions and concerns that arise in her research are approached from traditional and innovative methods in applied ethics (esp. bioethics), philosophy of science, law, and social philosophy.

Alex Cain (she/her) is a Teaching Specialist in the Philosophy department at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She teaches ethical theory, political philosophy, political economy and history of philosophy subjects. Her book, titled The Genius of Friendship: Understanding friendship with and beyond Hannah Arendt, is contracted to de Gruyter and has an expected publication date of 2025. This book is based on her PhD work, completed at Monash University in 2023. Alex has received awards for teaching excellence from Monash University twice, and is currently studying towards a Graduate Certificate of University Teaching at the University of Melbourne. She has coached teams in the Ethics Olympiad (the Australian equivalent of the US Ethics Bowl) for the past three years, including a team from the University of Melbourne in 2024 that placed second and a team from Monash University in 2022 that placed third. Originally from Tasmania, she now lives in Melbourne with her partner and their daughter and pets (two cats and a dog).

Dr. Emily Esch (she/her) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Scholars program at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. She teaches on philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, often with a focus on race and gender. She served on the Board of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for fifteen years and is President of the Teaching Philosophy Association, which oversees the journal Teaching Philosophy. She is the founding editor of AAPT Studies in Philosophy.

Yingshihan Zhu (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at CUNY, Graduate Center, where she is writing a dissertation on the moral complexities of privileged oppressed agents. Shihan works in Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, and Bioethics. She is also passionate about inclusive pedagogy and holds a graduate certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. When not doing philosophy, Shihan enjoys growing avocados, taking long walks in the woods, and writing about medical humanities on social media.

Shannon (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary interests are in ethics and science, both in first order inquiry within these domains and in metaethics and philosophy of science. She is also drawn to philosophical questions about philosophy itself. Recently, she has been thinking about pragmatist conceptions of truth and objectivity, alternative normative concepts, the ethics of intimate relationships, and host-pathogen interactions. When she is not in front of a book or a computer, she enjoys spending time making pen and ink illustrations, hiking, cross-country skiing, dancing, and traveling.